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SMSF growth driven by investor satisfaction

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
The relative level of satisfaction with self-managed super fund (SMSF) performance is a likely driver for SMSFs' continued growth and significant market share, according to Roy Morgan Research. Roy Morgan's findings are based on a survey of 15,084 superannuation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street lifted following disappointing retail sales figures which bolstered the case for keeping US interest rates low. At 0803 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... surprise of surprises. Similarly, the annual growth in US export prices dropped to minus 5.9% last month from minus 5.1% in January - they have been negative since September last year. Slumping US export prices indicate the loss of America's pricing ...

ASIC bans Charterhill director from financial services

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
Charterhill Group founder and director George Nowak has been banned by ASIC from practicing financial services until 3 July 2017. The grounds for the ban are that Nowak is an undischarged bankrupt, having applied for personal bankruptcy in July 2014. ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
"Baby, baby, baby oooh Like baby, baby, baby nooo..." - Justin Bieber "Baby, baby, baby oooh." Another month, another strong and better-than-expected US non-farm payrolls report. US businesses added another 295K heads to their payroll (versus expectations ...

Retail super bounces back

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
The SelectingSuper MySuper (ie Workplace) rolling 12 month performance index made a remarkable recovery during January as it surged 320 basis points to reach 11.5%, with retail MySuper products stretching their short term segment lead to 0.7%. Three ...

No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... March's interest rate cuts outside of its scheduled Board meetings. The Indian central bank cut interest rates on 15 January - weeks before its scheduled 3 February meeting. Yesterday's move (4 March) was also weeks ahead of the scheduled 7 April monetary ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
The Australian share market is trading higher on the back of expectations of another cut to interest rates, but has eased back on its run towards the 6,000 point mark. The benchmark ASX 200 index has not been at 6,000 points since January 2008, during ...

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
Like an expectant father, the Australian stock market is beaming with gleeful anticipation of a birth of another child. It's coming! It's coming! Expectations that the RBA would deliver another 25 bps cut in the official cash rate - taking it down to ...

Fight or be beggared by the neighbours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
Another rate cut is coming, another rate cut is coming. Bloomberg's survey shows (tada!) 18 out of 29 economists expect the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to follow-up February's 25 bps reduction in the official cash rate to 2.25% with another 25 bps ...